Kiwi dad shot at Sydney police station

A man who was shot yesterday at a west Sydney police station and later died was a New Zealand-born father.

David Peterson died after going into cardiac arrest when he was shot in the shoulder by police. He allegedly entered the Quakers Hill police station welding a kitchen knife and threatening officers around 10:30am (local time).

Police are still trying to determine why Mr Peterson, aged in his 40s, entered the police station. They carried out a search of his property after the incident.

"I can say that there's no indication that this is terrorist-related, but why the man came there, why the confrontation [occurred], at this stage we just don't know," NSW Police Assistant Commissioner Denis Clifford said in The Sydney Morning Herald.